Night Goblin Spearmen

A unit of painted Warhammer Fantasy Night Goblins, or as GW is now calling them, Gloomspite Gits. Really fun, and for the most part a quick and easy paint job. The only challenging/time consuming part is the clothing edge highlights, and the design patterns on the hoods.

The painting is quite simple:

• Basecoat the miniature in black, then drybrush a medium tone grey over the model.
• Wash all robes in a variety of GW Contrast paints, including Black Templars, Wyldwood, Akhelian Green, and Gore-grunta Fur.
• Paint spear shafts, teeth, and pouches VMC Flat Earth, then highlight spears roughly with VMC Medium Grey.
• Rope, hood patterns, and moon icons are painted VMC Ivory.
• Metal is painted GW Leadbelcher.
• Shade entire spear (shaft, rope, and metal) and the belts with GW Aggaros Dunes.
• Use sponge to apply GW Runefang Steel to metal spear tip.
• Wash remaining metal areas with GW Agrax Earthshade.
• Shade pouches with GW Snakebite Leather.
• Shade moon icons and hood patterns with GW Iyanden Yellow, and reapply Ivory over top areas of moons and inside areas of hood patterns. Glaze with Lamenters Yellow.
• Skin is GW Deathworld Forest, shaded with Athonian Camo Shade, then layered with Elysian Green followed by Ogryn Camo.
• Paint eyes white then shade with GW Blood Angels Red.
• Paint teeth Ivory then shade with GW Skeleton Horde.
• Edge highlight black robes with VPA German Tank Crew no2, blue robes with a 2:1 mix VMC Field Blue and Ivory, dark brown robes with Reaper Khaki Shadow, and light brown robes with VMC Flat Earth

And that covers the majority of it!

~iPaint

Dark Elves - Bleakswords

First full point of Dark Elves painted for SAGA. This unit reprents the Bleakswords from the Games Workshop range of Dark Elves. The plastic kit really maintains that old school Dark Elf vibe while updating the details and crispness of the armor and weapons (the swords are a bit huge but whatever, it's fantasy!). This will be a unit of Warriors for SAGA: Age of Magic.

Next to Raging Heroes Blood Vestals

I've gone ahead and magnetized a handful of them (majority will be in the next batch of eight spearmen) to allow for swapping between swords or spears and shields, or eventually if I want to arm them with crossbows.

~iPaint

Raging Heroes Blood Vestals - Next Ten

Skin, eyes, makeup, and lady bits done on the next ten Blood Vestals from Raging Heroes. Such a breeze using Citadel Contrast Paint to get the skin done in two steps. Eyebrows are usually something I avoid painting on models, but the way the eyes are framed with the purple eye shadow really makes them pop as part of the face (plus RH actually digitally modeled the eyebrows, so why not paint em!).

Now comes the long part of black base coating everything back in to finish the models. Always find this the most time-consuming part, but Black Templars Contrast has been helpful for the edges where skin meets clothing or hair.

~iPaint

Raging Heroes Blood Vestals - First Five

First five painted Raging Heroes Blood Vestals miniatures. These are the older metal models still available from before their Kickstarter that introduced newer sculpts. They will fit in well with my Games-Workshop Dark Elves and count as Witch Elves.

I prefer the more simple styles of these models compared to the newer versions. The goal is to have two units of twelve painted at some point for either Dragon Rampant, SAGA Age of Magic, or any other skirmish fantasy rules that pique my interest.

Four were painted using a standard layering process for the skin, while the fourth in line starting from the left was painted using Citadel Contrast Paints for her skin, followed by a single highlight of Reaper Fair Skin Highlight.

The process was so quick on her skin I'll be doing that for the remainder of the models. The first test model I painted is first in line on the far left, and I think the styles match up fairly well considering how long it's been since I painted her.

I have about 20 or so magnetized Dark Elf rank and file I need to finish up as well.

~iPaint

Orktober! 2019 Part 1

Been a while but felt Orktober would be a good reason to post some new minis. The plan is to use This Is Not a Test as a base rules set and do some Gorkamorka styled warband skirmish games.

Here we have some Games Workshop and Kromlech ork bits for the first batch of Goffs. I have Bad Moons, Goffs, Evil Sunz, and Blood Axes planned as the current warbands.

The first five Goff Ork Boyz

Sluggas and choppas, Cannon armed Boyz

Slugga and choppa, Cannon armed 'Ard Boyz

The Kromlech armored bodies, heads and weapons are a great fit with the GW kit, and I've got a whole bunch of other parts from Spellcrow and For Fun Miniatures to throw into the mix.

More 28mm Post Apocalypse Miniatures

Some more painted 28mm post apocalypse miniatures. First up are some Vault Tec Vault Dwellers from Brother Vinni's, a Mechanic from Studio2, a gunslinger from Brigade Games, and a Peacekeeper warband from World's End Publishing.

Brother Vinni's Vault Dwellers

Studio 2 Deadlands and Brigade Games

World's End Peacekeepers Warband

~iPaint

More This Is Not A Test Post Apocalypse Goodies

Finished up some more caravanner/scavengers for the wasteland. Decided I am going to base my post apoc gaming in a time a bit after the bombs fell, and with a bit of vegetation returning to the wasteland. As such, I've added in some more green static grass to my basing, and this will allow me to do some cool water grime and streaking, as well as justify the rust everywhere. Acid rain corrodes after all!

Micro Art Studio crate piles.

EM4 scavengers.

Copplestone, EM4, and Brigade Games scavengers and caravanners.

 I've rebased all of my painted minis for post apocalypse, and am much more satisfied with how things are looking. I'm planning to get some serious mileage out of my Cigar Box Battle Mixed Ground gaming mat.

~iPaint